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Subject: Daily Digest. international observers? Author: M.S. Haliburton per jfh [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:21:04 05/01/03 Thu Author Host/IP: d150-99-156.home.cgocable.net/24.150.99.156 I thought it was wrong to have bumpted an elected "adult" delegate who supports Orchard with a youth delegate who supports Brison even though he was actually not elected. This happened in Ottawa West Nepean. It seems to me that if the youth delegate replaces anyone, it should be the adult delegate supporting the SAME CANDIDATE (i.e. Brison). However, because he's a young guy, he gets my spot. Reverse ageism? Or just electoral dirty tricks? I'm having trouble deciding, and this tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth on starting out. However, I will attend as an alternate delegate, though I begrudge the cost due to being deprived of a rightful vote (and even more to depriving those who voted for me as well.) However, it seems that trying to skew the election away from Orchard involves many more areas of the country and other kinds of shady tactics. If policy and argument cannot win the day, are dirty tricks then legitimized by the rulebook? Take Vancouver Island riding for an example. Its riding president seems to have decided to scratch the meeting based on allegations of abusive phone calls and bad behaviour. Was anyone else allowed to vote on being deprived of their rights? The report I saw doesn't say, but I think I can guess that it was an executive decision. Who would trust such an executive again? Had the meeting gone ahead, eight of ten delegates in that B.C. riding would have been Orchardites. Allegations were made that NDP members were signing up in order to slant the results. That is silly. After all, the NDP has a new leader who got broad popular voting support in all the pre-convention mail-in as well as the internet voting so there would be no reason for NDPers to defect. If I were an NDP supporter I would be in there working for Layton and not bother trying to set up competition for him! It is also completely off base to accuse Orchard or his supporters of being left wing. Many of us are estranged former Tories (such as myself, once upon a time a Flora McDonaldite!) who felt unable to support the party due to its betrayal of the electorate under Mulroney. People either had to vote for other parties or entirely abstain from the democratic process. Orchard has wide enough appeal to draw people like us back to the fold. Maybe it's time for those international election observers to pay a visit to Canada (not to mention the U.S.) to report on irregularities in our electoral process. If these are already cropping up at level of leadership voting, then will the general elections be suspect as well? We in the so-called democratic West like to go observe in third-world countries to check that dishonest tactics are not being used that would undermine the election. Turnabout is fair play! Let's have some independent observers assess our actions and make a report to the nation and the media about these cancelled meetings and bumped delegates. M.S. Haliburton Ottawa West Nepean [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Daily Digest. international observers? Roger Buxton 14:00:05 05/01/03 Thu ?Re: Daily Digest. international observers? Tory Youth 16:00:19 05/01/03 Thu Re: Daily Digest. international observers? -- Greg Moors, 16:33:10 05/01/03 Thu Re: Daily Digest. international observers? -- Jackie Anderson, 16:52:46 05/01/03 Thu Re: Daily Digest. international observers? -- Mike Redmond, 17:33:19 05/01/03 Thu Re: Daily Digest. international observers? Larry Haskell 23:41:58 05/01/03 Thu Re: Daily Digest. international observers? -- Larry Haskell, 23:45:54 05/01/03 Thu